XII. HUNTING ADVENTURES 



(no. 312—331). 



A. ADVENTURES WITH PIGS (no. 312-316; ef. Index, Pigs). 



312. Adägi and some other IVIav\àta men once .sailed över to .Sümai in Kfwai in a canoe 

 and arrlved there after a very stormy passage. While they were staying at Sdmai a man named 

 Bfama one day said to Adägi, „You me (we) go along that small Island call him Böromomuba, 

 pienty pig there." Bfama, Adägi, Maubo, and tvvo other men sailed över to the island taking 

 their dögs with them. On their landing two of the men were left to look after the canoe, while 

 Biama, Adägi, and Maubo vvent into the bush with their spears. At first they crossed the island 

 together vvithout finding any pig, and then they separated, Bfama and Maubo Walking round the 

 island in one direction and Adägi alone in the other. After a while Adägi felt very drowsy and 

 thought, „What's the matter I no can move now? Me sleep or what I go do?" He sat down 

 and Jaid his spear on the ground at a little distance from him. All of a sudden a large pig came 

 running along a track, halted in front of Adägi, and looked at him. The man could not get at 

 his spear which was close to the pig. He seized a pièce of wood and threw it at the animal 

 hitting it, and the pig ran away. Then Adägi rushed to seize his spear, but the pig was gone. 

 If he had kept the spear all the time he would have got the pig. After a while he met another 

 very large pig with two protruding tusks. The beast looked so fierce that Adägi became fright- 

 ened. There was no small tree near, and the large trees v\ere impossible to climb. VVhen the 

 pig came near, Adägi nevertheless threw his spear at it but missed, and the pig grunted and rushed 

 for him. Adägi ran a little distance off and jumped on to a nipa palm seeking shelter behind the 

 large leaf-stalks. The pig tried to get at him, foaming at the mouth. „Biama, Mäubo, you come 

 quick! Close up pig he kill me!" Adägi shrieked. Biama was the first to run and set the dögs 

 on to the pig, „Go on, catch him !" The dögs attacked the beast, and Bfama speared it first and 

 then killed it with his axe. The men carried the pig to the canoe. Adägi who had a narrow 

 escape wept and his friend Bfama wept with hmi. They returned to Siimai where thej^ eut up 

 the pig and ate it. (Adågi, Mawäta). 



313. It happened once at Mawäta while the täera ceremony was going on that a woman 

 named Kävee saw the spirit of her husband Onéa while he was still alive. The spirit entered 

 the house where she was, pieked up a how and some arrows and went out. After a little while 



Tom. XliVIl. 



